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DIED. DAVE GRAUE, 75, cartoonist who drew the syndicated strip Alley Oop, about a cheerful time-traveling Neanderthal; in a car accident; near Flat Rock, N.C. Graue attended high school with the daughter of V.T. Hamlin, who launched Alley Oop in 1933 and turned the strip over to Graue when he retired...
...power. You can feel the beat when he plays, explosions of mass and muscularity that fill up the court like blasts of boom-box rap. Short, curt hooks. BAM! Power-jams in the paint. BOOM! Or, as in Game 7 of the Portland series, a spectacular fourth-quarter alley-oop from Bryant that O'Neal pulled from the rafters of the Staples Center. Shaq came down harder than thunder, harder than a Dr. Dre track. SHAKA-LAKA-BOOM! Portland was finished...
...turning point of the contest came 15:21 minutes into the second half when Husky sophomore guard Jean Bain connected with freshman forward Toby Brittian on an alley-oop...
...paint, where senior center Geoff Owens will be a permanent fixture. The 6'11 Owens (9.3 ppg, 7.3 rebounds per game, 58 blocks), an All-Ivy honorable mention selection last year, is a force to be reckoned with on offense and defense, and he loves slamming home the alley-oop from Jordan...
...little alley-oop pass," Tomassonisaid. "You never know where the puck is going tobounce...